Dr. Del Piñal: “If no hope is given to someone with a radius fracture, we are before lack of knowledge or just malpractice”
Las fracturas de radio o fracturas de Colles se producen de forma muy común, y –por desgracia- en demasiadas ocasiones son abordadas incorrectamente. De forma tradicional se han considerado lesiones de muñeca de buen pronóstico, lo que genera excesos de confianza que desembocan en diagnosis y tratamientos inadecuados.
Del Piñal takes part in the conference ‘Challenges and Controversies in Hand Surgery’, held in London
The Spanish surgeon was among the international speakers at this event organized by the Anglia Ruskin University and the Saint Andrews Center for Plastic Surgery London hosted last 7th and 8th November the medical meeting ‘Challenges and Controversies in Hand Surgery’, promoted by the Anglia Ruskin University and St Andrews Centre for Plastic Surgery, with […]
470 world champion Tara Pacheco will participate in Santander 2014 after the emergency surgery performed by Dr. Del Piñal
Olympic sailor Tara Pacheco will compete at the Sailing World Championships after overcoming a fracture of the index finger on her right hand The sailor of the Spanish Olympic squad Tara Pacheco will finally participate in the 2014 Santander Sailing World Championships, after quickly recovering from an accidental injury in the fifth metacarpal of the […]
A new technique of free adipofascial flaps transplant, developed by Dr. Del Piñal, gives hand mobility back to patients with ‘exhausted beds’
The beds hidden in layers under our skin are genuine ecosystems in which the components of our skeletal-muscular system live and interact. Sometimes, various factors, such as repeated operations in the same area, infections, severe trauma or deficient scarring- transform that ‘fertile land’ on a barren area in which the fibrotic and immobile replace the […]
Dr. Del Piñal, keynote speaker at the Spring Scientific Meeting of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand
The Spanish surgeon presented the latest surgical advances in thumb reconstruction The Spanish surgeon Francisco del Piñal has been one of the keynote speakers at the Spring Scientific Meeting of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, one of the most prestigious in the world. During the meeting, held in Newcastle last 1st and […]
Del Piñal, speaker at the 12th Congress of the European Federation of Societies for Microsurgery
The Spanish surgeon took part in the symposia dedicated to bone reconstruction and toe to hand transplantation Dr. del Pinal was part of the international group of speakers of the European Federation of Societies for Microsurgery 12th Congress (EFSM), held in Barcelona from 3 to 5 April. The Spanish surgeon contributed with individual presentations at […]
The catastrophic hand (II). The physician perspective: ‘save what can be saved’, calm and collaboration
In ‘The catastrophic hand (I). The patient experience: hopes, plans and microsurgery’, we talk with Dr. Del Piñal on the characteristics and surgical and psychological challenges posed by transforming a catastrophic hand in one acceptable. A perspective that put the focus on the surgeon-patient relationship. In this second post about it, we change our approach […]
The Spanish Surgeon Francisco del Piñal invited to Louisville as the Harold E. Kleinert and Joseph E. Kutz Visiting Professor in Hand and Microsurgery 2014
Del Piñal, former fellow of the Christine M. Kleinert Institute Hand Surgery Fellowship, will occupy this Fall the honorific post for outstanding alumni After proudly accepting the invitation of the Kleinert Kutz Hand Care Center, Dr. Francisco del Piñal will become this Fall the 19th Harold E. Kleinert and Joseph E. Kutz Visiting Professor in […]
Santander will be the host city for the XXIst edition of the FESSH Congress in 2016
The meeting, chaired by Dr. Francisco del Piñal, will gather at the Cantabrian capital 1500 medical professionals from all over Europe From June 22nd to 25th 2016 Santander will host the XXIst Congress of the Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand (FESSH), becoming for a week the center of international research and […]
Differences between osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis: from the wear to our own body’s fury
Google translation: Traditionally, by the similarity of the terms and the overlap in the damaged areas of the patients of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, they confuse both pathologies. They could hardly be more opposite. While osteoarthritis stems from the degeneration of the area affected by ‘wear and tear’ or ‘abnormal’ use (extreme intensity of use of the joint, ’side’ effects of poorly healed… […]